Cécile Wajsbrot
Cécile Wajsbrot (born July 21, 1954 in Paris ) is a French writer , translator and essayist .
biography
Cécile Wajsbrot was born in 1954 in Paris as the daughter of Polish Jews . Her family had fled to France, from where her grandfather was deported and later murdered in Auschwitz . Her mother and grandmother only narrowly escaped a raid.
Cécile Wajsbrot studied comparative literature in Paris and then worked as a French teacher and radio editor. She has translated books from English and German into French. a. by Virginia Woolf , Suzan Wicks, Charles Olson, Gert Ledig and Wolfgang Büscher .
She works for the magazines Autrement , Les nouvelles Littéraires and Le Magazine littéraire . Today she lives as a freelance writer alternately in Paris and Berlin.
Wajsbrot, whose novels often have an autobiographical background, addresses a.o. a. the theme of the Shoah , or the silence between the generations about traumatic events in the past, both in relation to French and German post-war history.
Awards, honors
- In 2014 she was awarded the renowned Eugen Helmlé Translator Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros .
- 2016 Prix de l'Académie de Berlin
- 2017 member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
Works
- Novels and volumes of short stories
- Une vie à soi , 1982
- Atlantique , 1993
- Le désir d'équateur , 1995
- Mariane Klinger , 1996
- La trahison , 1997 (German: The betrayal , translated by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-935890-34-2 ).
- Voyage à Saint-Thomas , 1998
- Le visiteur, suivi de Le passage, et Les étoiles de mer , 1999
- Nation par Barbès , 2001 (German. Im Schatten der Tage , translated by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-935890-23-0 ).
- Nocturnes , 2002 (German Nocturnes: Stories from the Sea , translated by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-935890-64-9 ).
- Caspar-Friedrich-Strasse , 2002 (German man and woman looking at the moon , translated by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935890-15-X ).
- Le tour du lac , 2004
- Fugue , 2005
- Mémorial , 2005 (German from the night , transl. Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-935890-51-9 )
- Conversations avec le maître , 2007
- L'île aux musées , 2008
- L'hydre de learn . 2011 (Ger. The heads of the Hydra , transl. Brigitte Große . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88221-581-6 ).
- Sentinelles , 2013
- Totale éclipse , 2014 (German Eclipse , transl. Nathalie Mälzer . Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-263-9 )
- Destruction , Le Bruit du temps, 2019 (German destruction , transl. Anne Weber. Wallstein , Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-83533-610-0 )
- Essays
- Violet Trefusis . Biography. Preface by François Mitterrand . Mercure de France, 1989
- Europe centrale. With Sébastien Reichmann. Autrement
- L'Histoire à la lettre. With Jacques Hassoun . Mentha, 1991
- Pour la litterature. Zulma, 1999
- Beaune-la-Rolande . Zulma, 2004 ISBN 2-84304-266-6 ( Eng . "The ceremony". Translated by Hans Thill. In: Sinn und Form 2/2012, ISBN 978-3-943297-04-1 )
- The presbytery, in Olga Mannheimer Hg .: blue, white, red. France tells. Translator Marie Luise Knott . dtv, Munich 2017 ISBN 9783423261524 pp. 317–323
- Translations
- Virginia Woolf : Les Vagues . Calmann-Lévy, 1993
literature
- Jan-Pieter Barbian : Cécile Wajsbrot. In: dsb. (Red.): Vive la littérature! French literature in German translation. Ed. & Verlag Stadtbibliothek Duisburg ISBN 9783892796565 p. 44f (with ill.)
- Roswitha Böhm and Margarete Zimmermann: You silence à la voix - studies on the work of Cécile Wajsbrot. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2010 ISBN 978-3-89971-497-5
- Philipp Glahé: On the relativity of time. Family and work of the writer Cécile Wajsbrot , in: Documents 4/2015, pp. 57–59. Journal for the Franco-German dialogue / Revue du dialogue franco-allemand, ISSN 0012-5172.
Web links
- Literature by and about Cécile Wajsbrot in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Cécile Wajsbrot at perlentaucher.de
- Interview with Cécile Wajsbrot , FAZ , October 11, 2009
- '"Osnabrück is paradise lost, just not for me."' , Conversation with Hélène Cixous . In: Sinn und Form 2, 2014, pp. 214–222
- Profile Cécile Wajsbrot on the website of the Édition Zulma (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.academie-de-berlin.de/Archive/aktuelles/eurostile-next Retrieved on June 3, 2016
- ↑ First publication. About their different languages: Yiddish , German, French
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wajsbrot, Cecile |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, translator and essayist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |